Comedy Quotes · Page 297

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

— Jason Gann

“You can't stay mad at someone who makes you laugh.”

— Jay Leno

There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

— Jim Butcher

I would love to do a comedy, and I think physical comedy is something I probably have a knack on.

— Zoe Bell

People really want to laugh, and whatever resonates with them is good.

— Taylor Tomlinson

If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?

— Hermann Goring

I'm just someone who likes making lots of things up and trying to be funny. That's about it.

— Limmy

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

— Marlon Wayans

What I really want to do is comedy. I would love to do some guest star spots on some single-camera comedies.

— Katie Featherston

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them…

— Brian De Palma

I love jokes that come out of nowhere. The ones where people look at the screen and go, 'What the Hell was…

— Allen Covert

I know people say plays are only an evening's entertainment. But you can make it mean a lot to the audience, even…

— Nigel Hawthorne

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

— Saul Bellow

When I'm up on stage and do a joke, half the people interpret it one way and half of them interpret it…

— Maria Bamford

I think humor is a really important way of creating solidarity - like, through humor you can make people realize that certain…

— Elif Batuman

Drag breaks the fourth wall, which is why it's never been quite accepted, because nobody wants to be told that they are…

— RuPaul

I always wanted to write, even before I realized that there was a comedy writers' world, or what that life was like.…

— Mindy Kaling

“Oooh, dinner and a show! How come you never take us to dinner and a show?" He smiled at Roxy. "I would…

— Katie MacAlister

TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next…

— David Bowie

The worst years of my life were the first two years I was doing standup. You're learning how to do, and you're…

— Bill Maher

It’s been a very old thing for people to gather together and laugh at stuff. The first comedian in America really was…

— Louis C. K

They are two very different people. It's almost a modern-day 'Odd Couple,' if I had to characterize it, with the two of…

— Dawn Ostroff

When I do an action thing, it speaks louder than the things that I've done that are dramatic and comedy. Actually, if…

— Michael Jai White

The stuff I did in 'Rescue Me' was great. It gave me the opportunity to play comedy, and Denis Leary was the…

— Kevin Chapman

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I also try to think of ways to articulate the joke more economically.

— David Cross

“What tickles the soul, makes all the world well again”

— Leandra J. Kalsy

I've never sat down and written jokes. I wouldn't know how to.

— Kayvan Novak

I wanted to be a comedian, but I wasn't funny enough to do it every night.

— John Popper

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

— V. S. Naipaul

“Without a sense of humor, you don't have much sense at all.”

— Pen

As funny as it be by you, it not that complex. Seein' is believin' so you better change your specs.

— Shaggy

Ideally, I'd love to do a comedy just because, work-wise, it'd be a lot of fun.

— Amber Stevens

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

— Bob Hope

“Ever notice how really smart people enjoy making silly jokes?”

— Elizabeth Chandler

A year living with your parents when you turn 30 has been ripe for comedy.

— Rosie Jones

People are funny. They often don't mean to be, and that's what makes it even more endearing.

— Jennifer Lee

“Every time you tell a lie an angel punches a unicorn in the face with a kitten.”

— Dave Turner

Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.

— Wendell Berry

Instead of saying LOL I am going to say SALTS(smiled a little then stopped).It's more truthful.

— Shubham Joshi